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Your fellow citizens voted for that particular tax increase.

Yeah. I know, but they are good people. Heck, they'd give you the shirt right off my back if you asked 'em.

Because of rent property, my annual property tax bill has been running about $18,000 a year, of which a large slice comes out of my 8-5 wages.

Local school district in my sparse county just passed a $15.5 million bond issue. Around $6 million was for football and contingency funds.

The lion's share of my tax bills is for school taxes, and that portion of my bill will go up by about 30%. If my shell-shocked math is with me, my next year's property tax bill will go up by about $3,000 a year, up to about $21,000. The extra three grand will be straight out of my 8-5 take home pay.

Fortunately, I already bought a P320 and a seductively sweet Kimber that will do anything I ask except miss.

Just after universal, basic rights issues, I'm all for property tax relief, just as soon as my citizenship is propped up. Campus carry, open carry, whatever can be reasonably done first, then we can talk about administrative issues like tax.

My reasoning is that if the colonists had reasoned with the British to repeal the Stamp Act, but at the cost of their militia and privately owned weapons, there would be no America.

I know. I sound like a kook. I'm harmless, I promise. Ease my property tax, ignore my gun. It will never speak unless spoken to.

I wonder which is the stronger bond - to the Second Amendment and civil rights, or to Joe Strauss?

Sound like we're about to find out.